Oswego Tri

I actually found it through anohter site. Here's the link to race site. Price goes up on 7\1\2011 I believe.

http://www.oswegotriathlon.com/

Pleasant Prairie was a great race in my opinion. I will definitely be doing it again next year. Very well run.

Innaugural?!  Oswego has had a tri (shorter/ "I tried a triathlon") for 25+ years.  

It was the first one I did in '88!  

Are they still running that one or is this a replacement to that/ longer version of it??? 

Anyone familiar with the body of water in which they're holding the swim?  Looks like a farm irrigation run off pond!  Is this going to be sanitary??

I just spoke with a longtime Oswego local who said the pond this is in is an old stone quarry or something of some type...said the water should be very clean - no livestock around or anything, nice and deep, clean water.

Anyway, I'm just answering my own question here!  Looks good.

Website was dated a few days ago, but listed 86.

OK I was hoping it was an old quarry & not some stagnant old gross thing, haha.

I'm registered too - hope we have good weather!

I think the 86 was referring to the water temp not the number of participants.

Should be a good but very warm day for a race.

FWIW-- Regarding registration-- the website contradicts itself saying in one section-- you can register the morning of the race; while in another section, it states that there is no registration the morning of the race.

I sent an email to the director and she confirmed that there is no registration the morning of the race but you can register on Saturday at packet pick-up.

The website says water and sports drinks will be provided before, during and after the race...I don't know where, I'm sure they'll have at least one aid station out on the run.

No idea how many waves...it looks like they've got almost 300 participants though, which is more than I was expecting for this race.

Picked up my packet today - I didn't realize the race started so late.  But it's nice to not have to wake up at 4 AM!  I am a little irritated that that information wasn't included in the packets but at least it's available online.  

Drove the bike course - there are two very small hills but everything else is pretty flat.  The last mile+ is on HORRIBLE pavement and the first 1/2 mile isn't great.  The rest is fairly smooth with some random bumpiness.

Yeah I did the same.

A couple dicey sports down on that "reservation road" where there's some pretty sharp turns in succession, along with a bumpy road.  I'm hoping they'll have volunteers there warning people to slow down, otherwise there will be carnage.

Ha - must have been Wauconda...I was there too.  That was brutal being 2 minutes from jumping in and having it get called.  Good luck tomorrow.